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Holiday entertaining horror stories. by marshd1000 on 27 Nov, 2009 08:52
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I was wondering if any of you had horror stories from Holiday entertaining gone bad. Here is what happened at my annual Thanksgiving Eve dinner!
Well, I hope none of you ever have to experience what I just went through on Thanksgiving Eve. On Thanksgiving Eve, I have had a tradition of having friends over for dinner. This usually consists of having homemade soup and then the other friends bring over things like salad, etc. Well, I was pretty much ready for company and just had to run the vaccuum and do a small amount of dishes. Anyway, my fist guest arrived and I started to do the dishes. Well, the sink started to back up.
I had some trouble with the sink when a unnamed friend put onion peels down the disposal. I did not call the manager right away when that happend as this friend was temporarily living with me. I did get the sink to drain but it was slow. Eventually the friend moved and I never called the manager or the owner as I was putting off getting my place straightened out.
So now as I was having guests arrive, the sink was not getting any better. I even used a plunger. So I HAD to call the manager. The manager came over and he was cool. But the owner of the building is a A$$*&%e. Yes, I know I need to forgive him and pray for him. The manager used a snake on the drain and broke the drainpipe. All this as dinner was about to be served. Meanwlhile, the owner got rude and accuseatory and ordered me to clear out the area under the sink. While I knew that I needed to get that space cleared and would be glad to do it, I DETEST being rudely ordered to do it. Especially in front of friends. I also don't like being made to feel like I am puppy who pissed on the carpet and now someone is going to rub my nose in it.
When all this happened and my stuff was getting wet, my stomach was getting tied in knots. I walked out on my dinner party and guests as I needed a mental health break from the building owner from Hell. The first dinner guest left shortly after he ate. I did not even eat, I was too upset. Then the other two guests and I went to Dairy Queen and I finally ate dinner.
Thankfullly by the time we came back from Dairy Queen, the owner and the manager were gone. I know had a MESS in the kitchen and I was up until 2 AM cleaning it all up. I had to do so to get it ready for having my stepmom and her boyfriend over for Thanksgiing dinner. Thankfully, that went off without a hitch.
Anyway, I guess I need to start praying for the owner of my apartment building. Also there is a new rule in my apartment, only I will operate the garbage disposal. -
#1 by hammerdrill376 on 27 Nov, 2009 09:00
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LOL..good story marsh..
One thing about garbage disposals and I saw this first hand. Never put pasta down a garbage disposal. Pasta expands and I saw first hand at a beach house this summer what can happen if the disposal pipes are overloaded. Kitchen area of the place looked like a crime scene from CSI. -
#2 by tomgallagher on 27 Nov, 2009 12:10
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Garbage disposals can be very tempermental.
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#3 by Alexander215 on 29 Nov, 2009 15:12
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This isn't holiday related, but I have a friend who was eating cereal one morning and hiccuped, only to find herself without a spoon. She couldn't find it after tearing the place apart and later became ill for a few days. She finally went to the doctor only to find out she had swallowed the spoon when she hiccuped.
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#4 by Tyler on 30 Nov, 2009 10:57
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This isn't holiday related, but I have a friend who was eating cereal one morning and hiccuped, only to find herself without a spoon. She couldn't find it after tearing the place apart and later became ill for a few days. She finally went to the doctor only to find out she had swallowed the spoon when she hiccuped.
Wow! I'm thinking that should be added to a movie somewhere... -
#5 by tow on 30 Nov, 2009 11:15
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yeppers i knew there was a reason i always volunteered to work the holidays.Holiday pay and no horror stories. i think apartments owners all fall in that class .
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#6 by Timmay on 30 Nov, 2009 12:06
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Its not so much garbage disposals....Just ask my youngest daughter. Macaroni Shells...poured down the wrong side of sink. Instead of scooping them out...she pushes them thru the strainer on the drain. A couple of weeks later I guess, the sink wont drain. I go to the basement...undo the drain..OVER HEAD MIND YOU...and out comes all of these little SWOLLEN shells. They just kept dropping out. NEVER put macaroni..cooked or uncooked in the drain..lol
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#7 by Mike on 30 Nov, 2009 15:49
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No horror stories from the holidays. One did happen the day before thanksgiving though. My older brother always uses way too much toilet paper and doesnt flush when its full. Well I was getting ready for work when I had to go poop but he was pooping. I had like 5 minutes before I left for work. I heard the toilet flush and it didnt go all the way so I knew it was clogged. All of a sudden he came running out looking for the plunger and then it overflowed, poop, water, and toilet paper all over the floor. I ended up holding it til I got to work. Anyway, the toilet hasnt been the same since he clogged it.
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#8 by Mikekoz13 on 30 Nov, 2009 19:19
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No horror stories from the holidays. One did happen the day before thanksgiving though. My older brother always uses way too much toilet paper and doesnt flush when its full. Well I was getting ready for work when I had to go poop but he was pooping. I had like 5 minutes before I left for work. I heard the toilet flush and it didnt go all the way so I knew it was clogged. All of a sudden he came running out looking for the plunger and then it overflowed, poop, water, and toilet paper all over the floor. I ended up holding it til I got to work. Anyway, the toilet hasnt been the same since he clogged it.
This definetly qualifies as WAY too much information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
#9 by Timmay on 30 Nov, 2009 19:32
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No horror stories from the holidays. One did happen the day before thanksgiving though. My older brother always uses way too much toilet paper and doesnt flush when its full. Well I was getting ready for work when I had to go poop but he was pooping. I had like 5 minutes before I left for work. I heard the toilet flush and it didnt go all the way so I knew it was clogged. All of a sudden he came running out looking for the plunger and then it overflowed, poop, water, and toilet paper all over the floor. I ended up holding it til I got to work. Anyway, the toilet hasnt been the same since he clogged it.
This definetly qualifies as WAY too much information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how many times can you count the word POOP! lol -
#10 by Tyler on 01 Dec, 2009 00:10
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I'm laughing so hard right now!
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#11 by tomgallagher on 01 Dec, 2009 09:11
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No horror stories from the holidays. One did happen the day before thanksgiving though. My older brother always uses way too much toilet paper and doesnt flush when its full. Well I was getting ready for work when I had to go poop but he was pooping. I had like 5 minutes before I left for work. I heard the toilet flush and it didnt go all the way so I knew it was clogged. All of a sudden he came running out looking for the plunger and then it overflowed, poop, water, and toilet paper all over the floor. I ended up holding it til I got to work. Anyway, the toilet hasnt been the same since he clogged it.
This definetly qualifies as WAY too much information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen to that brudder. -
#12 by Mike on 01 Dec, 2009 10:56
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Psh, no such thing as too much information. The bad thing is, is that I really talk like this, I told my boss the story when I got to work.
Oh that reminds me of another poop related story from the holidays, well almost. It was Halloween morning last year and I went to check the coyote trap, I had to go through the garden to get to it. Well the trap was empty but my amigo came down to complain about something so I grabbed a rotten squash and threw it at him. That started the rotten veggie fight which then turned into a rotten fruit fight in the tree farm. I ended up getting trapped in the roundpen and all I had in there was poop from the horses and the neighbors cows so I threw it at them. Which they were grossed out by it, really all it is is digested grass and such. I grabbed a nice cowpie that was still kinda soft and threw it and it splatted right on his shirt so we had to hose him off outside in October. He still stunk and the whole halloween party smelled like poop. -
#13 by D.A.L.U.I. on 01 Dec, 2009 13:52
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What he said!No horror stories from the holidays. One did happen the day before thanksgiving though. My older brother always uses way too much toilet paper and doesnt flush when its full. Well I was getting ready for work when I had to go poop but he was pooping. I had like 5 minutes before I left for work. I heard the toilet flush and it didnt go all the way so I knew it was clogged. All of a sudden he came running out looking for the plunger and then it overflowed, poop, water, and toilet paper all over the floor. I ended up holding it til I got to work. Anyway, the toilet hasnt been the same since he clogged it.
This definetly qualifies as WAY too much information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But our "holiday" horror show was later in the season, the Friday before the Mardi Gras parades start. My wife starts going crazy, yelling, screaming. Calm her down enough to find out we have major issues w/ the downstairs toilet off the family room. Mind you, in 4 hours we will have between 60-100 men, women and children at the house for parades and only one working toilet--in the back guest house. Call the plumber, stock answer, "Earliest we can be there is sometime early next week." I explain this is an emergency, we've got parades Friday night, Saturday day and night and Sunday during the day, and that doesn't even begin to cover the parades during the following week. Then a miracle, he says, "Oh, that's a real emergency, we can't have Carnival problems. We'll be there within the hour." They came, they fixed, it flushed and the party went on with a calm wife--a horror and miracle in one. -
#14 by tomgallagher on 01 Dec, 2009 14:48
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Who Dat...Show us your what.?